The second circuit of the day started with a B&M trolley at the bottom the Kokoro Passage.
Closed followed by an M&S trolley no distance at all from the where the first had been. But different sorts of trolleys and different destinations, so scored as two.
A short circuit, taking Hook Road back to Manor Green Road, rather than East Street and the Screwfix underpass. Which meant that I picked up yet another leaking water meter. Thames Water do seem to be having a lot of trouble in our area.
And it very much looks as if this meter has been visited several times in the past. Can't get the metermen you know.
A few blackberries, but none that I could reach. With the new house behind being built (roughly speaking) on the footprint of the old. As previously noticed: finding which is left as an exercise for the reader.
But lots of blackberries outside one of the blocks of flats - some of them in reach - and some of them very good - with lots of happy young girls playing on the other side of the hedge. All very important stuff with lots of chats about this and that going on in the margins. All quite invisible though, so the hedge must have been thicker than it looked.
Must go back in a few days time. Picking for immediate consumption being OK.
A bit further on there were some damsons, mostly out of reach, but I did manage a hat full.
BH cooked them up at some point, and I have to say I was a little disappointed. It seems that they were very bitter and needed lots of sugar, which meant that - to me anyway - they tasted too much of sugar and not enough of plum. Maybe they were not ripe enough, despite the numbers falling and the dented one visible right in the snap above.
As Gemini would no doubt have said, wrong balance between sugars and acids. For which see the plum part of reference 2.
References
Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/07/trolleys-919-and-920.html.
Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/07/trolleys-916-917-and-918.html.
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